As Britain officially ends its membership in the European Union, British nationals in Brussels, facing uncertain futures, dance away the final hours.
The British EU lawmaker held a beer in one hand and waved his jacket around his head, trying to keep step with the hundred or so others gathered to bid Britain farewell from the European Union.
On Thursday night, Brussels’ Grand Place central square was illuminated in the colors of the Union Jack for an event meant to commemorate “the long friendship between the people of Brussels and the British,” according to the event’s Facebook page. The city also dressed up its iconic statue, Manneken Pis — a boy urinating into a fountain — in a Union Jack waistcoat.
Joanne Houston, a Scottish woman raised in Italy, said she appreciated that the event brought people together — literally — by linking arms and dancing to a live band. On Friday afternoon, Magid lounged in his cluttered office in the Parliament building, where his staffers were packing their belongings in cardboard boxes.“I have a to-do list around here somewhere,” Magid said, stifling a yawn after being out with friends until 4 in the morning. “But I don’t know where.”
Patrick Lambert, a lay minister and retired EU official, prayed for ongoing cooperation between the EU and Britain, despite their separation.
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